Monday, 29 February 2016

Recently, the feud between the
various political forces on the Park regime’s “5-point bill for labor reform” is being intensified
and the anti-“government” struggle of south
Korean workers is on a high tide against the anti-popular misgovernment of the
conservatives.

The bill proposed by the present chief executive
is an evil law to increase the part-time workers. If the bill passes through
the parliament, business groups easily fire the workers and pay the minimum
wages.

For instance, the “Labor Standard Act” provides that the enterprisers are able to reduce the wages of the
workers on some unreasonable pretexts or other. And the other doubles the
part-time workers’ period of employment from 2 years to 4 years so
that they are more difficult to be full-time workers.

Also, the bill makes the returnees who worked
abroad at low wages as the part-time workers.

In a word, the bill is to sacrifice the workers’ rights to live for the interests of the business tycoons.

The various trade unions such as the Korean
Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions and
civic organizations of south Korea are carrying on a vigorous struggle against
the conservatives’ retrogressive revision of the labor law.

Since January 25, the KCTU has gone on a general
strike to smash the conservatives’ scheme. On February 2,
the KCTU and the FKTU had a joint press conference to denounce the authorities’“two principles” for the bill.

They would go on a struggle jointly to crush the
plot to pass the bill, they noted.

With the general election is near at hand, the
south Korean workers and people harden their determination to give a stern
punishment to the authorities against the people’s intention and demand.

The
south Korean people of various circles strongly protest against the
planned deployment of THAAD, because if the THAAD is deployed in south
Korea the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is looming.

Civic
organizations in Daegu and north Gyengsang Province called a press
conference on Feb. 12 to criticize the planned deployment of THAAD is
part of realizing the US Asia hegemony.

The south Korean authorities’ move to deploy THAAD is illogical, they asserted.

The
solidarity held a meeting outside the U.S. embassy and staged a
demonstration on Feb. 13 demanding a stop to the THAAD deployment and
joint military drills against the DPRK, conclusion of the DPRK-U.S.
peace treaty and resignation of Park Geun-hye.

The
south Korean people should drive out the Park regime, a marionette of
the US, in order to become masters of this land, they asserted.

They
stressed that they should open up the path to independent reunification
in order to remove the vicious circle of driving the people’s life to
death.

The
Bar Association for Democratic Society of south Korea staged a
demonstration in protest against the south Korean authorities' reckless
moves to introduce THAAD from the U.S in Seoul on Feb. 16.

Saying
that the planned deployment of THAAD would wreck peace, the current
situation endangers the peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and
Northeast Asia, they charged.

The association declared it would continue the struggle till the regime stops the planned deployment of THAAD.

The
Citizens Measure Committee Opposing the Deployment of THAAD in Wonju
comprising the public organizations in Wonju, Gangwon Province of south
Korea held a press conference at the city office on Feb. 17 to protest
against the south Korean authorities’ move to deploy THAAD.

The
speakers disclosed that Wonju, Pyeongtaek in Gyonggi Province and Daegu
are under discussion as the sites for the deployment of THAAD.

They said no to the deployment of THAAD in Wonju and any other parts of south Korea.

The
south Korean authorities’ move to deploy THAAD is an intolerable
treacherous act to plunge the Korean nation’s destiny into a disaster of
nuclear war in tandem with Washington’s global supremacy.

The south Korean authorities are terrified out of
their senses by an inexhaustible might of north Korea thriving thanks to a
powerful nuclear deterrence and rock-solid single-hearted unity. They are at
bay by the south Korean people’s action against the south Korean government’s
misrule. They have strained every nerve to tide over its worst ruling crisis by
creating gruesome situation.

In recent, the south Korean supreme court
sentenced a professor at Ulsan
University to a jail term
on charge of violation of the notorious National Security Law that he
distributed President Kim Il Sung’s reminiscences “With the Century” to his students.

It has been a long time that the south Korean
people read the President’s reminiscences with avidity, highly eulogizing the
reminiscences is a must-read.

The south Korean prosecution authorities, some
days ago, sentenced a resident and writer to a prison term on charges that they
had distributed poems and publication praising north Korea.

They imposed a heavy penalty upon the ex-executive
chairman of the South Headquarters of the Pan-National Alliance for Korea's Reunification (Pomminryon) on charge of
the National Security Law that he extolled north Korea at a meeting.

They indicted the leading members of the Korea
Solidarity for Independent Reunification and Democracy and go on the rampage to
suppress them.

The south Korean Prosecution Service said that
the Korea Solidarity has conducted campaign supporting north Korea’s ideology
and system since its formation in 2011 and criminalizes its street demo in
protest against the US troop’s experiment of anthrax germ.

The more south Korean ruling quarters’ fascist
suppression become violent, the more south Korean people’s action is more intense.

Pyongyang, February 29 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is behaving mischievously over the DPRK's satellite launch for peaceful purposes.
It is crying out for international pressure and "sanctions," terming
the DPRK's satellite launch violation of "resolutions" of the UN
Security Council.
This is a wanton infringement on the DPRK's sovereignty and grave challenge to it.
The DPRK's satellite launch for peaceful purposes is inviolable as
it is a legitimate exercise of an independent right of a sovereign state
recognized by international law which is above the UNSC resolutions.
The racket kicked up by the U.S. over the DPRK's satellite launch is
a vivid manifestation of the White House's extreme hostile policy
towards the latter.
Washington claims that all satellites launched by the U.S. are legal
while every satellite launched by the DPRK is illegal. Such claim is
the height of the American-style double standards.
An article posted by Stefan Landman on the website of the Canadian
Institute for World Studies "Double standards of the West towards north
Korea" said the UNSC resolution banning Pyongyang's use of ballistic
missile technology is a wrong one, adding that this resolution is not
applied to any country, to say nothing of the western world, and this is
the height of double standards.
A professor and doctor of the Socio-economic Faculty of the
University of Vienna sneered by saying that the UNSC is discussing
sanctions over the north Korea's satellite launch but the satellite
launch is a legitimate right of a sovereign state and if it finds fault
with north Korea's satellite launch, it has to adopt a new "resolution"
some time banning the sale of kitchen knives to its commercial network
for fear of killing people, he added.
A colonel of the Spanish Ministry of Defence noted that it is the
double standards to insist on slapping sanctions against north Korea as
satellites are launched by all the countries capable of doing so, adding
that it is also double standards that nuclear capable India and
Pakistan conduct regular ICBM launches but no one takes issue with them,
he said.
A researcher of an American nonproliferation center said that he can
say with confidence the rocket launched by north Korea was the
satellite launch as it was designed as a mechanism for launching rockets
into the space. There should be a considerable change in the design if
the satellite launch is to be described as ICBM, he held.
As the international public comments, the DPRK's satellite launch
can never pose a threat to other countries as it is clear space
development activity for peaceful purposes.
The U.S. is working hard to prevent the DPRK's satellite launches,
absurdly claiming that they "threaten" someone. If this is allowed, the
DPRK is barred from launching satellites for good. It is unpardonable
double standards for the U.S. to assert that the DPRK is only not
allowed to launch satellites, while launching different types of
satellites including spy satellites at any place and times in a bid to
militarize outer space in contravention of requirements of the
international community. The U.S. naturally should stop taking issue
with the DPRK's space development activities and halt the above-said
moves as they are a grave threat to world peace and security, to begin
with.
It should not make an excessive reaction to the DPRK's satellite
launch for peaceful purposes, prompted by the conception of
confrontation, but view it from a fair stand.
It is a law-governed requirement of the age of ultra-modern science
and technology and world trend to launch and operate working satellites
necessary for economic development and prosperity of the country.
The DPRK's position as a satellite manufacturer and launcher will
never change because of the U.S. denial and the former's space
development is not something to be given up because of someone's
"sanctions".
The DPRK will as ever make greater successes in the field of space
development so as to protect the self-respect and dignity of the nation.
It is nothing but a pipe dream for the U.S. to expect the DPRK to
collapse due to "sanctions." This is as foolish as waiting the missions
of the sun and stars to come to an end.
If the U.S. persists in its desperate attempt to deprive the DPRK of
its independent and legitimate rights, obsessed with its ill-intended
inveterate repugnancy toward the latter, it will be left with no option
but to take inevitable counter-measures to cope with it. -0-

Sunday, 28 February 2016

Kim Jong Un,
first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the
National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, on Saturday sent a
letter of thanks to the officials, working youth and students who
volunteered for national defence with ardent patriotism and loyalty and
the will to annihilate the enemy.
The full text of the letter of thanks reads:
Within only two days after the Supreme Headquarters of the Korean
People's Army published on February 23 a crucial statement on punishing
without mercy the U.S. imperialists and their south Korean puppet clique
who are hell-bent on extremely reckless war moves, officials, working
youth and students of universities, colleges and senior middle schools
numbering 1.5 million across the country volunteered to join or rejoin
the Korean People's Army.
I highly appreciate these dependable people for having volunteered
for the defence of the country and the revolution burning their hearts
with infinite loyalty to the revolution, ardent patriotism and the will
to annihilate the enemy, and extend heartfelt thanks and militant
greetings to them in the name of the First Secretary of the Workers'
Party of Korea, First Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Supreme Commander of the
Korean People's Army.
The courageous spirit of our people, including youth and students,
who gave vent to their pent-up fury on the enemy, who are running amuck
to provoke our prestigious state impudently, and rose up in the sacred
struggle for inflicting merciless divine punishment on them, is a
demonstration of the lofty spiritual world of the great Korean people
who firmly trust the Party Central Committee only and absolutely follow
it, a revolutionary people who are ready to defy a bloody war, and even
death, and smash the enemy if it is for the defence of justice.
As soon as they heard the crucial statement of the Supreme
Headquarters of the Korean People's Army, our officials, working youth
and students, laudable sons and daughters of heroic Korea, held meetings
in various parts of the country and expressed their soaring hatred
against the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet clique and
their will to annihilate the enemy.
Students of universities, colleges and senior middle schools turned
out as one with a determination to take up arms in defence of the
country and the revolution, and a large number of officials of the Party
and the youth league as well as ex-soldiers now working at factories
and farms presented earnest petitions for rejoining the army.
The 17-year-old girl students of senior middle schools chose to
become today's brave beauty Yeppuni in defence of the Party Central
Committee, rather than to enroll in institutions of higher learning.
Workers wrote on the petitions for joining or rejoining the army about
their determination to settle accounts at the cost of their blood with
the enemy who are bringing the cloud of war in their foolish dream of
achieving "system destruction" in our Republic. Their burning hearts
clearly showed how pure and warm the love of our people, including young
people, for the Party and the country is, and how fiercely their hatred
against the enemy, who are attempting to deprive them of their living
base, soars.
While receiving reports on the explosive enthusiasm for enlisting in
the army manifested among young people, working people and officials
across the country and their determination to take revenge on the enemy,
I felt great pride in having such excellent young people and
revolutionary comrades, who burn their hearts with the revolutionary
spirit and patriotism and never pardon injustice in the slightest, and
once again gained infinite strength and courage.
That all the service personnel and people live with their lots cast
in with the Party Central Committee is the genuine feature of Korea that
cannot be found in any other country and in any other era, and it is
the physiology of our society which the enemy can never understand. The
steel-strong, revolutionary unity of the Party, the army and the people
is our greatest strength incomparable to the might of scores, nay,
hundreds of A-bombs or H-bombs.
There is no people in the world other than ours who, cherishing a
thoroughgoing anti-imperialist revolutionary spirit, have achieved one
brilliant victory after another in the anti-U.S. showdown that has
continued from generation to generation and from one century into the
next. As long as it has such a great and heroic people, Songun Korea
will always emerge victorious.
Now the imperialist enemy are making a last-ditch effort to check our onward advance by all means.
But they are too ignorant of our people.
Our heroic people, whom the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
trained throughout their lives, know full well what their motherland
means, what a genuine life of a human being is and how they should
defend the supreme dignity of the revolution and bring their happiness
into reality, and are filled with a firm determination to support the
leadership of the Party and the leader with their burning hearts and
through an indomitable struggle.
By leading all the service personnel and people including young
people who are unfailingly faithful to its cause, our Party will
completely frustrate all manner of provocative moves by the hostile
forces and surely bring the final victory of the Juche revolution.
With the same spirit and mettle as they displayed in turning out as
one and volunteering for the sacred struggle for defending the country
and the revolution, all the service personnel and people including young
people should make redoubled efforts in the general offensive to
celebrate the Seventh Party Congress as a glorious meeting of victors as
it will constitute a historic landmark in carrying out the
revolutionary cause of the Workers' Party of Korea.
If the U.S. aggressors, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, and
their south Korean puppets, a despicable group of traitors to the
nation, eventually ignite a war, all the officers and men of the heroic
Korean People's Army, our Party's revolutionary armed forces, will give
vent to the indignation of the revolutionary army by firing salvoes to
reduce the enemy's strongholds to rubble, and win victory in the war to
make jubilant cheers for the prospering reunified Korea reverberate far
and wide.
All the people including our heroic working class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
and a steel-strong legion of young people with a rifle in one hand and a
hammer, a sickle or a writing brush in the other should thoroughly arm
themselves with our Party's revolutionary view on war, intensify their
anti-U.S., anti-puppet clique class consciousness and turn their soaring
indignation into most strenuous efforts.
The working youth and students should achieve greatest successes
conducive to building a prospering country by waging an unprecedented
labour struggle and intensive studying at their workplaces and schools
with the feeling that they are in the same trench as the service
personnel.
All the fronts and posts should raise the fierce flames of the
general offensive to death-defyingly implement the militant tasks
presented in the letter of the Party Central Committee to all its
members and the joint slogans of the Central Committee and Central
Military Commission of the Party, and thus greet the victorious May in a
dignified way carrying the records of the 70-day campaign of loyalty
inscribed with heroic devotion and shining miracles as well as proud
labour results dedicated to the Seventh Party Congress.
Party and working people's organizations should conduct
offensive-style political and ideological work in a concentrated way and
rouse the entire Party and all society to display mass heroism as never
before. By doing so, in the 70-day campaign that is proceeding
forcefully day and night they can create a new spirit representative of
the Mallima era of Juche Korea and a new heroic fighting mettle.
I firmly believe that all the service personnel and people including
young people, who always cherish a feeling of attachment to the garden
of the offices of the Party Central Committee, will give free rein to
the indomitable mental strength and the spirit of self-development they
have cultivated under our Party's concern, and brave grave challenges of
history so as to achieve the victory of the cause of Juche-oriented
socialism and communism without fail and demonstrate the dignity and
might of Kim Il Sung's nation and Kim Jong Il's Korea to the whole world. -0- (2016.02.28)

Pyongyang, February 29 (KCNA) -- Otto Frederick Warmbier, student at
the University of Virginia, the U.S., was interviewed with domestic and
foreign journalists in Pyongyang Monday. He was arrested for committing
anti-DPRK hostile acts.
Present there were domestic and foreign journalists, members of
foreign diplomatic missions and missions of international bodies here
and overseas Koreans staying in the homeland.
Warmbier spoke first.
He said:
On December 29, 2015, I entered the DPRK as a tourist.
On January 1, 2016, I committed severe crimes against the DPRK.
I am 21 years old. I am a student at the University of Virginia. I
am in my third year of the university. My residential address is Ohio,
United States with my family. At the moment, I lived in a rented
apartment near the university. My father owns a very small factory that
barely makes enough to support my family. My mother is a housewife. I am
the oldest son in my family. My brother and my sister are both high
school students.
I committed the crime of taking out a political slogan from the
staff-only area of the Yanggakdo International Hotel. The slogan
inspires the Korean people's love for their system.
The task was given to me by the Friendship United Methodist Church.
At the encouragement of the Z Society and the connivance of the United
States Administration, I came to commit this task. The aim of my task
was to harm the motivation and work ethic of the Korean people. This was
a very foolish aim.
Growing up in the United States, I was taught that the DPRK is a
mysterious, "isolated communist nation" from the mass media and
education. This made me an innocent thinking adventurous young man like
myself, want to show my bravery in this mysterious country in order to
improve my reputation and show Western victory over the DPRK.
I was scheduled to take part in a university-sponsored financial
class in Hong Kong and I decided to use this opportunity to visit the
DPRK as a tourist.
Based on my application's confirmation, I chose to have my tour at the end of December 2015.
On September 23, 2015, I was having dinner at my friend Stefan
Webb's home with him and his mother, Sharon Webb. Sharon Webb is a
deaconess in the Friendship United Methodist Church and her son Stefan
Webb is an active believer in this same church.
Sharon emphasized that her church does not support the Government of
North Korea and that communism should be ended. She said that communist
nations rally around political slogans. She asked me to take an
important political slogan from North Korea to be hung in her church as a
"trophy". She continued to say that by taking this slogan, we would
harm the unity and motivation of the North Korean people and show this
country an insult from the West.
She offered me a used car worth $10,000 if I was successful. And she
said if I was detained and not returned, her church would pay $200,000
to my mother in a way of charitable donations.
Since my family is suffering from very severe financial
difficulties, I started to consider this as my only golden opportunity
to earn money. Most importantly, Sharon said to never mention the
Friendship United Methodist Church's involvement or no payments would
come.
In early October, 2015, I informed my mother very little of my crime
attempt offer, but I told that I planned to steal something precious
from North Korea and if I was detained I told her that her bank account
would receive transfers for my brother and sister's university tuition.
She cried and said not to do anything dangerous. I considered less,
not wanting to hurt my mother. But since then, I got several alluring
pressures from the Friendship United Methodist Church, leading me to
finally decide my crime attempt.
In the meantime, the Z Society also clandestinely encouraged my act.
After I came to know that all members become very wealthy with
high-paying jobs after they graduate university, I eagerly wanted to
join the Z Society. That is why, in late November 2015, I intentionally
revealed my plan of my act to a member of Z Society. He said my plan of
action would certainly help the Z Society's goal of spreading "freedom"
and eliminating "tyranny". He said if I was successful, he promised me
that he would help me become a member in the Z Society. And he even said
if I was caught, the Z Society could help pressure North Korea for my
release. Finally, he said to never mention the Z Society's
encouragement.
I arrived in Pyongyang through Beijing and committed my crime against the people and Government of the DPRK.
My crime is very severe and pre-planned.
Then he answered questions raised by journalists.
He said:
The politicians and United States Administration use the Friendship
United Methodist Church to harm the DPRK by all dirty means and ways.
The Friendship United Methodist Church gave me my crime task, which is
matched to United States' consistent hostile policy against the DPRK,
with aims to spread Christianity in the DPRK and increase the support
from the United States Administration.
Therefore, my crime was the expected output of the U.S.
Administration's consistent hostile policy against the DPRK and its
implementation by the Friendship United Methodist Church.
There is no doubt that the CIA knows the Z Society's encouragement of my crime.
I took many detailed steps to prepare for my crime in the DPRK while I was in the United States.
I have been very impressed by the DPRK Government's humanitarian
treatment of severe criminals like myself and of the very fair and
square legal procedures in the DPRK.
And I've come to see that the current "human right issues" in the
DPRK, consistently highlighted by the United States Administration is
simply nothing more than a hypocritical excuse to eventually overthrow
the Government of the DPRK.
I apologize to the people and the Government of the DPRK and beg for forgiveness. -0-

The
US imperialists and south Korean puppets plan to stage the largest ever
war exercises against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK)from the 7th of March onwards . These exercises are a rehearsal to
invade the DPRK . As the crucial statement of the Korean People's Army Supreme Command says

"The U.S. imperialist aggression forces' nuclear-powered submarine North
Carolina has already entered Pusan Port, F-22A Stealth fighter-bombers
have been deployed in the Osan air force base and special operation
troops of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces are finding their way to
south Korea one after another to get involved in the operation.
The first special warfare corps of the U.S. Army, 75th commando
regiment, special commando regiment of the U.S. marines, 720th special
tactics corps of the U.S. air force, special warfare team Seal and other
special operation troops have already been deployed in fields. Their
operation missions are to strike major strategic targets including the
supreme headquarters and nuclear and strategic rocket force bases of the
DPRK in wartime.
Never has there been such a time as now when almost all the special
operation troops of the ground force, navy, marines and air force of the
U.S. that earned an ill fame in the past overseas aggression wars, and
the aggression troops that go operational for the so-called
"high-density strike" have found their way to south Korea all at once.

The
UK Korean Friendship Association has called a picket of the US Embassy,
Grosvenor Sq, London for the 5th of March 2016 at 2pm to 4pm

Saturday, 27 February 2016

Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- Historian of the Academy of Social Sciences Ri Kun Chan issued an article titled "Modern-day Don Quixote carrying a dagger in skirt belt".
The article said:
Recently lady of Chongwadae Park Geun Hye is going by another infamous name modern-day Don Quixote.
She exactly resembles Don Quixote in the light of her outward appearance, to say nothing of her acts.
The only difference, if any, is gender but Park far surpasses Don in her actual behavior, the article said, revealing her crimes during the past three years in office.
Park regarding hostility as "confidence" and confrontation as "principle" talked about "improvement" of inter-Korean relations while deteriorating them and has desperately worked hard to keep the nation divided into two forever. Yet, she goes mischievous, allegedly claiming "curing" tragedy of the national division.
Outwardly she upholds a slogan calling for improving north-south ties and settling the issue of nation's reunification but in fact she crisscrosses alien countries only to beg for "international cooperation" aimed at escalating confrontation with the fellow countrymen in the north.
Not content with crying out for confrontation with fellow countrymen, she wielded a dagger to brand the Kaesong Industrial Zone as a financial source for nuclear and satellite development.
She reeled off vituperations slandering the fair and aboveboard proposals made by the DPRK one after another for the improvement of the north-south relations, talking about "camouflaged peace offensive", "foreign propaganda" and "something for conflict among southerners".
She often strutted about the areas along the Military Demarcation Line in combat fatigues unbecoming to her skinny body where she shouted "Let's achieve unification under liberal democracy at the cost of lives!" and called for "stern punishment".
She has turned south Korea into an outpost for a war against the north and a hotbed for a nuclear war by unhesitatingly introducing all types of nuclear war means of her American master. Yet, she claimed that "security crisis in the Korean Peninsula comes from the north" and is staging ceaseless nuclear war exercises. She, however, is misleading the public opinion, asserting that the north is chiefly to blame for "threat" and "provocations."
The desperate efforts of Park to provoke the DPRK which has joined the advanced ranks of world nuclear powers by having access to even H-bomb reminds one of Don Quixote dashing toward the big windmill risking his life.
The crimes she has committed by depriving the nation of its precious gain and pushing the inter-Korean relations to nightmare with a sharp dagger for escalating the confrontation deserve severe punishment, the author concluded. -0

27th of February Juche 105(2016)The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK (ASSPUK) and the
Juche Idea Study Group of England(JISGE) issued a joint statement on the 80th anniversary of the Nanhutou meeting:

This is the very day on which 80 years ago , the historic Nanhutou meeting presided over by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG was held . The meeting lasted from the 27th of February to the 3rd of March .It was attended by the cadres and activists of the Korean People's Revolutionary (founded 5 years before in April 1932). The great leader President KIM IL SUNG made the historic report "The Tasks of Communists in the Strengthening and Development of the Anti-Japanese National Liberation Struggle."

The great leader President KIM IL SUNG
set forth a line on advancing the Korean People's Revolutionary Army main unit into the border area
and Mt. Paektu area and gradually expanding the armed struggle into the
homeland. As

President KIM IL SUNG said " In this favourable situation the Korean communists are faced with
the important task of further developing the anti-Japanese national
liberation struggle by building up the revolutionary forces of our people and
mobilizing all their efforts."

The meeting was the one that focused on completely establishing
Juche for the first time in the Korean revolution and anti-Japanese
national liberation struggle.
In line with the policies, the Korean revolutionaries steadfastly
maintained the Juche-based stand in each stage of the revolution and
held fast to it as an utmost lifeline of the nation in whatever
adversities.
Hence then, the Korean revolution entered into a higher stage.

The teachings of President KIM IL SUNG at the Nanhutou meeting served as a guideline for the anti-imperialist national liberation movement in the colonies. The banner of Juche, the banner of independence, which was the focus
in the Nanhutou Meeting, serves as imperative still for building a
thriving socialist nation.

Some have taken issue with the strong language used by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea about the south Korean puppet ruler Park Geun Hye . We in the UK Korean Friendship Association , the Juche Idea Study Group and the Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK , applaud the strong stand that the DPRK is taking towards the south Korean puppet regime. It is a just and correct stand and a most revolutionary stand that has been taken by People's Korea.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and its supreme leadership have been subjected to a campaign of abuse, lies , invective, slander and calumny by the south Korean puppets . Much of this has actually been regurgitated by the Western media who fawn on the south Korean puppets and the US imperialists .
One south Korean 'national assembly' member even advocated the violent murder, the assassination of the DPRK supreme leadership ! This is an unspeakable crime and an intolerable provocation against the DPRK , to put it mildly . The DPRK is paying back the south Korean puppets in their own coin . When they slander and abuse the DPRK supreme leadership and the socialist system of the DPRK the south Korean puppets should not cry and whinge that Park Geun Hye gets called an old bitch and a senile old granny !
In actual fact under previous inter-Korean accords such as the June 15 joint declaration slander and calumny were banned,. The DPRK did its best to adhere to this . However south Korea has all but torn up all inter-Korean agreements and accords. For several years it has carried out leaflet scattering operations aimed at undermining the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership and the socialist system. How can the DPRK remain silent ?. Recently the south Korean
side pulled out of the Kaesong Industrial Zone, a symbol of inter-Korean co operation so thus the die is cast .
What of south Korea itself and Park Geun Hye ?South Korea is a puppet regime maintained at bayonet point by the US army . It is an artificial entity created by US imperialism and should not be dignified with the description of state . South Korea even pays the US imperialist army for its occupation of south Korea . The economy of south Korea is dominated by US and Japanese transnational corporations and by comprador monopolies called Jaebols. South Korea is a society where the richer get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.
Park Geun Hye is the daughter of the notorious military fascist dictator Park Chung Hee who came to power through a bloody military coup in May 1961 in which hundreds of thousands were slaughtered. Park Chung Hee was a collaborator with the Japanese occupiers and colonialists. He later received training from the US military and CIA . This proved to be of no help in the end
as Park was killed by his own security chief on the orders of the US in 1979 having become a liability to the US imperialists.
Park Geun Hye despite being of advanced age is unmarried and has no children , this is unusual for a Korean woman in either south Korea or the DPRK . Some speculated that she was a lesbian but others pointed to her having a lot of affairs when she was young and several abortions but this is unconfirmed.
Park has a personal fortune of $7million but this is an underestimate . While she lives in luxury many south Koreans are unemployed and homeless.
Park likes to think of herself as the south Korean Thatcher , blissfully unaware that a sizeable section of the British people hated Thatcher and when Thatcher died held street parties and sang 'Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead'. One day south Korean people will dance and sign 'Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead'

Friday, 26 February 2016

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Association for Human Rights Studies in an indictment issued on Feb. 23 disclosed that the U.S. and western countries wantonly violated rights of the peoples of other countries under the signboard of "human rights" and "democracy."
According to it, the U.S. set up "cultural centers" and "information services" in more than a hundred countries of the world to systematically provide them with periodicals spreading the reactionary idea and American-style way of life.
Radio Free Asia set up in January, 1994 has broadcast in various national languages for 15 hours every day, 80 percent of its programs are aimed at spreading Yankee-style culture and slinging mud at the ideologies and culture of other countries.
Some countries of the EU and Japan have massively produced and spread reactionary publications slandering the ideologies and social systems of other countries and benumbing the sound thinking of people.
The U.S. and western countries put under their control the majority of international information exchange after seizing the three fourths of the world websites. They are making desperate efforts to quell the voices representing progress and justice and embellish their unpopular social system against human rights.
They prodded dissident forces in relevant countries into fostering social confusion and chaos and put pressure on their governments for taking actions against them under the pretext of "human rights abuses." In the long run, they staged military intervention in sovereign countries under the excuse of "protection of human rights."
The U.S. had committed over 900 cases of operations for assassination and terror against prominent political figures and leading government officials of various countries from 1961 to 1976.
Its scenario to overturn the regimes of sovereign states still goes on in such anti-imperialist independent countries as Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
The U.S. and western countries are wantonly violating international laws adopted to prevent genocide and punish those involved in it under the signboard of "anti-terrorism war."
About 14 000-110 000 innocent people died every year from 2001 to 2011 due to the U.S.-led "anti-terrorism war."
For just 5 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, 1 205 000 Iraqi people were killed, a million missing, and nearly half of them are children.
According to a UN report on February 4, 2012, civilians killed due to GIs' operations for "combating terrorism" in Afghanistan numbered 3 021 in 2011 alone. 484 innocent civilians including 168 children were killed by GIs' attacks in Pakistan from 2004 to June, 2012.
U.S. forces mounted attacks on dwelling houses, hospitals and storehouses of RC organizations, high-voltage cable for cities, etc., which are banned even in wartime by international law, destroying and plundering them.
GIs massively used chemical and germ weapons during the Korean War in the 1950s, massacring innocent Koreans, and used even depleted uranium bombs during the Gulf and Balkan wars in the 1990s.
They used horrible chemical weapons destroying even human bones, cruelly massacring civilians during the Iraqi War.
The U.S. and western countries are committing more serious human rights abuses in secret prisons overseas in wanton violation of international law.
Pursuant to the regulations for operating overseas secret jails set by the U.S. administration 6 days after the September 11 incident, CIA established and operated secret prisons in various parts of the world including Poland, Afghanistan, Iraq and Thailand.
U.S. Congress in its report on Dec. 9, 2014 opened to public that CIA had resorted to monstrous tortures baffling human imagination against hundreds of prisoners for several years.
Britain and 20 other western countries offered secret prisons and interrogation centers to CIA, thus closely cooperating with it in tortures.
According to the British Guardian in October 2013, the U.S. National Security Bureau wiretapped phone messages of 35 foreign heads of state in conspiracy with the White House, Department of State and Pentagon.
The Washington Post disclosed on December 5, 2013 that the U.S. gathered 5 billion pieces of information about common citizens in various parts of the world by tracking their mobile phones.
Even western countries were no exception in wiretapping of phone messages.
According to information, 360 million pieces of phone messages were eavesdropped in Germany, 70 million in France and 46 million in Italy by the U.S.
The U.S. large-scale phone wire-tapping operations conducted worldwide for the last several decades are, indeed, u

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- Eighty years has passed since the Nanhutou Meeting was convened by President Kim Il Sung. The meeting marked a new milestone in developing the overall Korean revolution centered on the anti-Japanese armed struggle onto a higher stage.
At that time, the Japanese imperialists were hell-bent on obliterating the Korean people's consciousness of independence and national characters, while hastening their preparation for invading mainland China.
To cope with the situation, the President convened the Meeting of Military and Political Cadres of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) in Nanhutou of Ningan County, China from February 27 to March 3, Juche 25 (1936) and delivered a report "The Tasks of Communists in the Strengthening and Development of the Anti-Japanese National Liberation Struggle".
In the report, he set forth strategic policies to transfer the main force of the KPRA to the border point and the area around Mt. Paektu and gradually extend the armed struggle into the homeland, expand the movement of the anti-Japanese national united front and step up moves to found a party. The policies run through the independent stand that the Korean revolutionaries should always be loyal to the Korean revolution.
Now the army and people of the DPRK, armed with the Juche idea, are going on a general offensive for the final victory of Songun (military-first) revolution under the guidance of supreme leader Kim Jong Un. -0-

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UKhttp://www.uk-songun.com/index.php email juche007@yahoo.co.uk

London 25th of February Juche 105(2016)
The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK and the Juche Idea
Study Group issued the following joint statement to mark the 2nd
anniversary of "Let Us Hasten Final Victory Through a Revolutionary Ideological Offensive " by the dear respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN ;

Today is the second anniversary of the speech to the 8th Conference of Ideological workers of the great Workers' Party of Korea which was titled "Let Us Hasten Final Victory Through a Revolutionary Ideological Offensive" by dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN
This was and is a most brilliant work that shows the way to win victory
in the struggle for the final victory of socialism is to mount a bold
and daring revolutionary ideological offensive. In the work dear
respected Marshal KIM JONG UN declared that
"The one and only weapon for the Korean revolution that made its
start empty-handed was a great revolutionary ideology. The
revolutionaries of Korea rallied comrades and obtained weapons on the
strength of the ideology; and on its strength they defeated imperialist
powers and built a prospering socialism"
This is indeed a great truth and a principle that should be adhered to constantly. Only through powerful ideological work that people can be motivated to perform greater miracles .
In view of the reactionary imperialist ideological offensive against
socialism that has been carried out over the past several decades and
has recently become more and more intense. Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a brilliant thinker who believes in the maxim "attack is the best form of defence " and is putting this into effect on the ideological front. The work calls for not only smashing the ideological and cultural infiltration of imperialism but for a most
powerful ideological counter-attack to be launched against imperialist
and bourgeois ideas.
The ASSPUK and JISGE hailed the publication of Let Us Hasten Final Victory Through a Revolutionary Ideological Offensive as it is a most powerful manifesto of KIMILSUNGISM-KIMJONGILISM.
Moreover it shows the correct way to build socialism namely through
ideological work rather than by certain other methods which have proved
disastrous. The Korean revolution and People's Korea of Juche are
marching forward under the glorious banner of the Red Flag whilst others
have fallen by the wayside or even betrayed the cause of socialism.
The work "Let Us Hasten Final Victory Through a Revolutionary Ideological Offensive" is just like an ideological nuclear deterrent which will blast away imperialism and capitalism.

Since the publication of the work "Let Us Hasten Final Victory Through a Revolutionary Ideological Offensive"
the Korean revolution has steamed ahead at breakneck speed , a new
Korean speed with miracles in construction bring wrought every day . The satellite of Juche has soared into the skies conquering space and the H bomb was tested sending shudders down the spines of the imperialists. New buildings such as Mirae Scientists' Street have sprung
up.
Today under the banner of great KIMILSUNGISM-KIMJONGILISM the
Korean people are waging a fierce ideological offensive against the
imperialists to defend socialism and build a powerful and thriving
socialist country. The Korean people led by dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN will be ever-victorious.

LET
US HASTEN FINAL VICTORY THROUGH A REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGICAL OFFENSIVE

Speech
at the Eighth Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers’
Party of Korea

February
25, Juche 103 (2014)

At
this significant time when we are marking the 40 anniversary of the
proclamation by the great Comrade Kim
Jong Il
that modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism was the ultimate
programme of our Party, we are holding the Eighth Conference of
Ideological Workers of the Workers’ Party ofKorea.

Availing
myself of this opportunity and reflecting the unanimous wish of all
those attending this conference and all other members of the Party, I
pay the noblest tribute to the great President Kim
Il Sung,
the founder and builder of the ever-victorious Workers’ Party of
Korea, and to the great General Kim
Jong Il,
the eternal General Secretary of the Party.

And
on the occasion of this conference I extend, in my capacity as First
Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, warm thanks and militant
greetings to those attending the conference and all other ideological
workers of the Party and primary information workers across the
country, who have worked with devotion and burning hearts at their
workplaces and military posts as buglers of the revolution and
pathfinders of the times.

This
conference held on a scale unprecedented in the history of our Party,
will be a milestone and mark a radical turn in exalting forever the
brilliance of the imperishable exploits performed by the great
President and the great General who, holding high the unfurled banner
of the Juche idea, led the Korean revolution forward along a road
resplendent with victory, in understanding and confirming once again
the importance of ideological work and in launching a vigorous
ideological offensive as demanded by the developing revolution.

The
most powerful weapon for a party that is waging a revolution
shouldering the people’s destiny-in fact its one and only weapon-is
ideology. Without ideology, a party cannot be founded nor can it
exist, and its work and revolutionary struggle are inconceivable
separated from ideological work. The bloodline of the revolution is
defended and the revolution advances on the strength of ideology.

The
one and only weapon for the Korean revolution, which started from
nothing, was a great revolutionary ideology. The revolutionaries of
Korea rallied their comrades and obtained weapons with their
ideology; and on its strength they defeated the imperialist powers
and have built a prospering socialism. We cannot see a revolution in
the history of any country or of any party that, like our revolution,
started out with a definite guiding ideology and has turned that
ideology into a powerful force for conducting a great struggle and
transformation.

The
whole course of the Korean revolution can be called a history of
ideological work to give full play to the might of the truth of the
revolutionary ideology of the President and the General.

In
our revolution, ideological work has always been the most important
work, and a great tradition of ideological work was created in its
first days.

Thanks
to the wise leadership of the President and the General, who gave
priority to ideological work and resolved all problems by enlisting
the mental strength of the masses of the people in the whole course
of their leadership of the Korean revolution, the revolution
inscribed only victory on its flag, even though it was blazing a new
trail in history. By raising the mental strength of the service
personnel and people, our Party has turned the trials decisive of
victory or defeat in the revolution and its advance or setback into
great upswings, and our revolution has climbed a “high mountain”
whenever an upswing has been effected in ideological work.

The
Third Conference of Ideological Workers of the Workers’ Party of
Korea, which was held 40 years ago and at which the great General
proclaimed that modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism is the
ultimate programme of our Party, is of special importance in the
history of our Party, as it opened a pivotal phase of the revolution
on the strength of ideology.

That
the General defined Kimilsungism as the guiding ideology of our Party
and proclaimed that modelling the whole society on that ideology is
the ultimate programme of our Party, was a political event that
clearly indicated the road for bringing closer the final victory in
the Korean revolution and roused all the service personnel and people
to achieving it.

The
historic advance to model the whole society on Kimilsungism gave
birth to a powerful political General Staff that achieved oneness in
ideology and leadership for the first time in the history of building
a revolutionary party, to invincible revolutionary armed forces that
march with the red flag of the Workers’ Party as its leading
standard, and to militant ranks united single-heartedly.

History
clearly shows how a powerful country which is independent,
self-sufficient and self-reliant in national defence has been built
on this land where once the worship of big countries and dogmatism
were deeply rooted and a socialist fortress created which remains
unperturbed in the face of worldwide political upheavals and the
imperialists’ vicious moves to isolate and suffocate it.

Today
mankind is studying the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism so as to find
the road ahead of them. Everywhere on the globe the ideology centred
on the masses, the revolutionary theory of independence, has become
the spirit and banner of struggle for people who aspire after genuine
freedom and happiness.

Endless
is the glory our service personnel and people enjoy for having waged
the revolution for scores of years along the road indicated by the
great ideology and in a country which is admired by the whole world
and which gave birth to the ideology guiding the era of independence.

To
hasten the final victory of the Korean revolution, holding high the
banner of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, is their faith and
will and the wish of the times and history.

We
must hold aloft modelling the whole society on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the ultimate programme of the Party and
accomplish the Korean revolution without fail on the strength of
ideology, on the strength of single-hearted unity.

The
standard-bearers in the effort to model the entire Party and the
whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism are ideological workers.

Success
not only in transforming all the members of society into advocates of
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism but also in transforming all realms of
social life as required by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism depends on the
success of ideological work.

You
should once again reflect on the deep reason why the General convened
the conference of ideological workers and proclaimed in front of
Party information workers from across the country the programme of
modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism.

We
should spark a struggle on the Party’s ideological frontfirst and
heighten the intensity of ideological work so as to markedly quicken
the onward march of our revolution to model the whole society on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

We
have rich experience of forcefully propelling the historic march to
model the whole society on Kimilsungism by dint of an intensive
ideological offensive, and we also have powerful forces and means of
information and motivation work with which to stir up the whole
country all at once.

To
hasten the final victory of the revolution by holding higher the
ideological theory of Juche, a powerful weapon-this is the main
spirit of this conference.

In
view of the demands of the reality when modelling the whole society
on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism poses itself as the general task in the
ideological work of our Party, the Party Central Committee has
presented to the Eighth Conference of Ideological Workers of the
Workers’ Party of Korea the slogan, “Let us hasten final victory
through a revolutionary ideological offensive!”

In
the firm belief that all those attending this conference and other
ideological workers throughout the Party, aware of the honour and
responsibility of being ideological standard-bearers in accomplishing
the cause of modelling the whole society on
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, will give full play to the strength of our
Party’s revolutionary ideology and the inexhaustible mentalstrength
of all the service personnel and people, I would like to speak about
some problems facing the Party in its ideological work at present.

First
of all, we should concentrate all our efforts in the Party’s
ideological work on firmly establishing the Party’s monolithic
leadership system.

The
objective of our effort to establish the Party’s monolithic
leadership system across the Party and society is to consolidate the
unity and cohesion of the Party, the political General Staff of the
revolution, and its fighting efficiency in all aspects, implement the
instructions of the President and the General to the letter, and
realize our people’ dreams and ideals as soon as possible.

Now
is a crucial period when we must break through the ordeals facing the
revolution by rallying the service personnel and people more firmly
around the Party and channel all their patriotic enthusiasm, wisdom
and resourcefulness into stepping up the building of a thriving
country.

The
ideological system and leadership system for carrying out this
historic task scrupulously and perfectly is none other than the
Party’s monolithic leadership system.

The
ideological work of our Party must naturally proceed from its basic
task in the present period, and the main effort must be directed to
implementing it.

However,
Party organizations are now revealing a tendency to pay only lip
service to the work of establishing the Party’s monolithic
leadership system, and to engross themselves in paperwork in this
regard.

Although
a Party-wide discussion of the documents on establishing the Party’s
monolithic leadership system wasconducted and many study sessions,
public lectures and oath-taking meetings held, Party organizations
failed to detect and crush in advance the modern version of a
factionalist group which had formed within the Party.

Although
our Party has its great revolutionary ideology and absolutely correct
lines and policies, its organizations and excellent people, a
factionalist group recently appeared within the Party. Our
ideological workers are partly to blame for this.

This
modern version of a factionalist group was an ideologically
degenerate entity which was outwardly overwhelmed with fear in the
face of the pressure from the imperialists and inwardly contaminated
with bourgeois ideology and culture.

The
factionalist practice of challenging the Party’s monolithic
leadership system originates in ideological degeneration, and the
renegades of ideology are bound to oppose the Party and the
revolution in the long run.

Imbuing
the Party and the revolutionary ranks with one ideology-this is the
seed and core of the effort to establish the Party’s monolithic
leadership system.

The
objective of the revolutionary ideological offensive for establishing
the Party’s monolithic leadership system is to make the great
Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and its embodiment, the Party’s lines and
policies, an unshakeable conviction among the masses of the people.

The
revolutionary ideology of our Party has always accorded with the
aspirations and demands of the masses, and there is no line or policy
of the Party which they cannot understand and accept.

A
breakthrough should be made in the ideological offensive by raising
across the Party another strong wind of studying the immortal works
of the President and the General and the documents of the Party, a
library of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

These
works and documents are excellent textbooks for the education in the
one and only ideology and a great encyclopaedia explaining our
Party’s lines and policies.

If
they study them in a chronological order and in a systematic way,
Party members, other working people and service personnel can equip
themselves firmly with the Juche idea, the Songun idea, Kim
Jong Il’s
patriotism, therevolutionary traditions of our Party and class
awareness, and fully understand any new lines and policies advanced
by the Party.

It
is important to conduct education work in a scrupulous manner so that
all are well-versed in the instructions the President and the General
gave to their own individual sectors and units and the Party’s
policies, and make them a creed in their work and life.

You
need to explain to the masses the Party’s policies for agiven
period in a logical and convincing way so that they empathize with
them and accept them as their own. You should focus on informing
people in simple terms about things they are eager to know and hear
on the basis of the Party’s policies and in the same way that you
would tell a thirsty person where he or she can find water to drink.

In
the future, if everybody at a unit is as well informed of the Party’s
lines and policies as they are of their family affairs, theunit will
be considered to have conducted ideological work effectively and to
have established the monolithic leadership system.

“Exceptions”
must never be permitted in ideological work.

The
fact is that even a rolling stone may gather moss; so, one is bound
to degenerate when afforded exceptional treatment.

There
may be some special tasks assigned by the Party, but within our Party
there cannot exist “exceptions” who are allowed to neglect their
ideological life and be ignorant of its lines and policies. In the
case of special units, ideological work should be strengthened
further and they should be rendered as strong as steel in the furnace
of ideological struggle.

Ideological
workers should be able to discern at a glance if there is something
alien in the eyes of others. They must use the ideological “scalpel”
promptly root out the causes of such misdemeanours as arguing over
issues decided by the Party, undermining its leadership exploits
covertly or overtly and breeding corruption within our ranks in
contravention of our Party’s and class principles.

It
is important to conduct the work of imbuing the Party and the
revolutionary ranks with one ideology in close combination with the
practical struggle.

A
person’s ideology is expressed in practice and its outcome, rather
than in revolutionary rhetoric or pledges. The man, who, although he
seldom speaks, carries out the plans and decisions of the Party
Central Committee according to the set timetable and at the standard
demanded by it, is one who is armed with the Party’sideology as an
element of his faith.

Endeavouring
to implement the ideology of the Party and champion its policies-this
is the clearest manifestation of one’s loyalty to it and important
for making the validity of its lines and policies an element of one’s
faith.

The
soldier-builders who successfully carried out the project at Masik
Pass last year were determined to wage a death-defying struggle not
to delay even for a moment the completion date proclaimed to the
world by the Party Central Committee; they performed a miraculous
feat by completing in one year a project which was estimated to take
ten, thus staunchly defending the prestige of the Party.

The
on-site political work of the People’s Army, which was
three-dimensional and offensive-style ideological work to inspire
everyone from generals to private soldiers with a single desire to
carry out their Supreme Commander’s order, serves as a good example
in the ideological offensive to establish the Party’smonolithic
leadership system.

In
implementing the instructions of the President and the General, the
Party’s new line of developing the two fronts simultaneously and
Party policies, all sectors and all units should conduct an
ideological analysis and review of their failures and their causes.
Then they should press on with the frontline-style information and
motivation campaign to learn from the service personnel’s spirit of
carrying out their tasks even if it costs them their lives.

The
main targets of the ideological offensive for establishing the
Party’s monolithic leadership system are the misguided ideological
viewpoint and work attitude of the officials who give verbal support
to the Party’s policies but do not implement them instantly.

We
must combat the ideological maladies of those officials who remain
indifferent to the obstacles lying in the way of implementing the
Party’s policies for their own sectors, units and regions, as well
as to the difficulties facing the people in their everyday lives. The
ideological education and ideological campaign aimed at rooting out
such undesirable ideological elements as defeatism,
self-preservation, formalism, expediency, irresponsibility and
self-centredness should be conducted, based on an appropriate
methodology. The information and organization sectors of the Party
should be scrupulous in working in close cooperation with each other,
while the ideological campaign should be combined with legal action
to maximize its efficiency.

The
soaring mental spirit of our service personnel and people who, after
liquidating the modern version of a factionalist group, have hardened
their resolve to follow the Party Central Committee invariably along
the long road of revolution, should be fanned to flare up into the
flames of a great revolutionary upsurge.

Historically
speaking, the great victory was won in the Fatherland Liberation War
after the purge of an anti-Party, counterrevolutionary factionalist
clique following the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Party Central
Committee; the Chollima upswing was brought about in the course of
eliminating the August 1956 factionalist group; and world-startling
successes were achieved in the showdown with the United States and in
the socialist industrialization drive after the anti-Party
revisionists were exposed and purged at the 15th Plenary Meeting of
the Fourth Party Central Committee.

On
its ideological front the Party should actively encourage all Party
members and other working people to follow in their forerunners’
footsteps and become standard-bearers and 10 meritorious workers in
the struggle to champion the Party Central Committee by bringing
about a revolutionary upsurge.

If
all our service personnel and people, rallied firmly around the
Party, make substantial progress in socialist construction, those who
are wavering due to a lack of confidence will be brought to their
senses and the monolithic leadership system of the Party will be
established solidly across the Party and society.

Another
important task facing our Party in its ideological work is to raise a
strong wind of an ideological campaign to boost the struggle for
defending socialism.

In
the present era, as in the past, socialism represents the ideal of
humanity, and it is the irreversible trend of the times.

We
are now following an untrodden historical path staking the dignity of
our independent people and the destiny of socialism in the struggle
to repulse the imperialists’ frantic attacks. Today the path of
socialism and the inevitability of its victory depend on the struggle
of Korea’s revolutionaries.

In
performing this honourable mission our Party and people have assumed
before history, the ideological workers, the red, hardcore elements
of the Party, should become undying torchlight and loud bugles.

They
should give Party members and other working people a clear
understanding of the essence and character of the present struggle to
defend socialism.

In
the struggle we waged in defence of socialism in the 1990s, we
created a historic miracle of safeguarding our ideology and system
against the allied imperialist forces’ moves to isolate and stifle
our country.

The
ongoing struggle to defend socialism can be said to be aimed at
prevailing over imperialism in all fields of social life by
consolidating the victories and successes achieved so far and giving
full play to the advantages and might of socialism.

Recently,
our Party has put forward both the agricultural and the scientific
fronts as outposts for defending socialism. Its intention is to
constantly remind our people that not only on the frontline where
guns are levelled at each other but also in all other places where
they live, they are engaged in an invisible, fierce confrontation and
competition with the imperialists. If we, resting on our laurels and
praising ourselves, do not give spur to the revolution and
construction and thus fail to bring the people real benefits, such
socialism is doomed to lose its appeal.

We
should build a thriving country as soon as possible by giving full
play to the advantages and might of socialism, which capitalism can
never imitate nor possess, so as to make socialism as different in
all respects from capitalism as heaven is from earth.

A
vigorous ideological campaign should be launched to demonstrate the
might of our great army-people unity on a higher level in building a
thriving country.

The
solid single-hearted unity of the army and people around the Party
constitutes the cornerstone of our style of socialism and a great
foundation in building a thriving nation. The successive eye-opening
miracles which have been wrought recently, shaking the land,
mountains and rivers throughout the country, are all the fruits of
the great unity between the service personnel and people and of their
concerted efforts.

The
People’s Army should, in the future, too, be the primemover and
pioneer in strengthening this great army-people unity.

It
should intensify its information and motivation work geared to giving
full play to the might of an army that is strong in ideology both in
national defence and socialist construction. The Party organizations
and political organs in the army should regularly create such new
terms as the “Masikryong speed” by carrying forward the proud
history of the revolutionary army which has proved with its
indomitable revolutionary spirit that Korea’s determination is its
materialization and reality, and civilian Party organizations should
accelerate the work of learning from the revolutionary spirit and
fighting style of the service personnel.

When
the time comes for us to wage an all-out life-and-death fight with
the enemy, we can achieve final victory on the strength of the great
army-people unity, all-people resistance, based on the revolutionary
soldier spirit.

All
sectors and all units should launch a dynamic ideological offensive
so as to make the flames of collective innovation flare up.

Our
people gained valuable experience in ushering in a golden age of
socialist construction through an all-people, collective innovation
movement in the 1970s, a decade of great change.

In
the 1970s, when the country was resounding with the drumbeats of
revolution and the bugles sounding the speed campaign, they made
magnificent creations and changes unprecedented in the history of
their country, while militarily coping with the large-scale war
exercises staged by the US imperialists. It was during those days
that our country became the first in the world to abolish the tax
system, enforced universal 11-year compulsory education and rendered
massive assistance to the developing countries and the fighting
peoples around the world.

It
is the intention of our Party to carry on the building of an economic
giant and a civilized state by bringing into play the might of
socialism, the might of collectivism, as happened in the 1970s.

The
flames of the movement to win the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th
Regiment and the three-revolution red flag movement should flare up
more fiercely in military and civilian units, and vigorous socialist
emulation drives be launched in sectors, units and regions and by
stages. By so doing, we can ensure that a strong wind of collective
competition sweeps the whole country.

For
the present our Party demands that all military and civilian sectors
create model units and, with them providing the initial spark, kindle
the flames of joint innovation. Ideological workers should focus on
enlisting the creative zeal and activeness of the masses both in
creating units that advance ahead of the times and in organizing
competition for overtaking them.

The
ideological campaign against the abuse of authority and bureaucratism
should be stepped up to make all officials rallying points that,
sharing weal and woe with the masses, unite their collectives, as
well as dependable point-men in the mass innovation movement.

Efforts
should be channelled into information and motivation work for
bringing into full play the spirit of self-reliance, the might of
which has been fully demonstrated in the severe trials of history.

We
can say that the whole history of socialism of our own style boils
down to self-reliance. In the days of building socialism by their own
efforts, our Party and people underwent unprecedented ordeals and
difficulties, and they were ultimately loaded with all sorts of
honours our nation could not enjoy in its history spanning thousands
of years. Had we succumbed to the pressure from outside forces and
abandoned the principle of self-reliance, Juche-oriented socialism
would not have been born and our country’s name would have
disappeared along with the collapse of the worldwide socialist
system. On the track of self-reliance Chollima rose up on the ruins
of war and the miracle was achieved of manufacturing and launching an
earth satellite and becoming a nuclear state, a miracle of great
significance in the national history.

Ideological
workers should intensify among officials and working people education
by means of the history of our socialist construction, so as to
implant in them the belief that self-reliance is the path of building
a thriving nation.

Self-reliance
is the spirit of national self-sustenance and the spirit of going
beyond the cutting edge to lead the whole world by our own efforts,
with our own resources and with our own technology. We need to
steadily build on the fighting spirit with which we made tractors and
electric locomotives from scratch and the spirit with which we
conquered space by our own efforts and with our own technology. We
should undertake an information and motivation offensive to ensure
that everyone turns out in the campaign to make everything in our
country the assets of socialism that cannot be found elsewhere in the
world, fully conscious that they must go beyond the cutting edge even
at their own posts and workplaces. We should provide ideological
support for the efforts to make a breach in the imperialists’
manoeuvring to monopolize high technology, and should create advanced
science and technology of our own.

It
is important to be active in encouraging scientists and technicians
firmly to defend their revolutionary positions on the grand march of
self-reliance led by the locomotive called “science and
technology.” Ideological workers should play a major role in
creating a climate in which the importance of science is recognized
throughout society and in which all people are made well-versed in
science and technology.

We
must launch an information offensive in which, ideologically and
morally, we overpower the imperialist reactionary forces who are
trying to stamp out socialism.

The
imperialists are currently hell-bent on a smear campaign to turn
black into white and are persisting in their attempts to infiltrate
corrupt reactionary ideology and culture into our country with our
service personnel and young people as the target; at the same time
they are still manoeuvring to apply sanctions against our country,
and stifle it. Whereas reactionary ideology and culture were their
guide to aggression in the past, they are playing a leading role in
their aggression at present.

The
struggle to defend socialism should be an offensive operation to,
outwardly, gain the political and ideological upper hand over the
imperialists who are hindering our onward movement and, inwardly,
sweep up non-socialist practices and decadent ideology and culture by
means of our revolutionary ideology and culture.

Ideological
workers should undermine the enemy’s morale by launching a skilful
media campaign, a radio campaign, aimed at giving wide publicity to
the validity of our ideology and cause and at laying bare the
vulnerability and foul nature of the imperialists. They should make
larger numbers of ideological “missiles” capable of severely
damaging the enemy and instilling firm confidence in victory among
our service personnel and people.

They
should take the initiative in launching operations to thwart the
imperialists’ moves for ideological and cultural infiltration,
while putting up double and treble “mosquito nets” to prevent the
viruses of capitalist ideology which the enemy is persistently
attempting to spread, from crossing our border.

By
nature, the working masses reject the bourgeois ideology and culture
which preach the money-is-almighty principle and the law of the
jungle. We need to create and propagate larger numbers of wholesome
and revolutionary works of art andliterature, articles and
presentations of our own style which highlight the beautiful dreams
and ideals of the masses and which brim over with national flavour,
so as to encourage our people to turn their backs on bourgeois
ideology and culture of their own accord. Decisive steps should be
taken to use the Internet as a medium for giving publicity to our
ideology and culture in order to cope with the enemy’s moves to
propagate their reactionary ideology and culture by misusing
mankind’s latest scientific andtechnological achievements.

The
sector of ideological work and the related units should work out
detailed plans for putting the mass media and external publicity
means on a modern and IT basis, and make persevering efforts to
implement them.

The
Party’s ideological work should be conducted in an aggressive
manner.

Our
Party’s strategy and tactics in ideological work are to encourage
the whole country to seethe and make a revolutionary leap forward by
fanning the flames of the ideological offensive so that they flare up
fiercely, in the spirit of advancing against all odds.

The
ideological position of our Party should be established in the form
for attack, not for defence.

We
should also conduct ideological education aimed at imbuing the whole
society with the red ideology of the Workers’Party in a proactive
way, conduct political work aimed at calling forth the mental
strength of all the service personnel and people as it is done on the
front line, and conduct the struggle to sweep away all shades of evil
ideas at lightning speed.

In
order to conduct ideological work in an aggressive manner, it is
necessary, above all, to root out the defeatist outlook revealed
among ideological workers.

Ideological
workers who are infected with such an outlook cannot take even a
single step by themselves even if they are placed in the vanguard of
the ideological offensive.

The
“Yongil bomb spirit” created in the forests of Mt. Paektu and the
do-or-die resistance spirit of Xiaowangqing and Chechangzi did not
emerge in ordinary times, and the legend of Chollima, the miracles of
the speed campaign, the revolutionary soldier spirit and the Kanggye
spirit were not born under more favourable circumstances than at
present.

Comrades,

Defeatism
in ideological work is more dangerous than that in economic work. The
present ideological offensive must start with eliminating defeatism
from among ideological workers.

Those
engaged in ideological work in the birthplace of the Juche idea must
not wait for a miracle to occur, but go purposefully among the
people, carrying with them the weapon of ideology, and become active
doers and devoted creators who find solutions.

The
posts in national defence, at factories, in farm villages and in
other places where you are working bear the imprints of examples of
the outstanding art of leadership set by the peerlessly great men who
found in the simple opinions of the service personnel and people the
best method of turning misfortune into blessing and adversity into
prosperity.

If
you work with the history of the revolutionary leadership of the
President and the General as your textbook, you will find nothing you
cannot understand and overcome in your work, and our Party’s
ideological work will truly become an initial spark for kindling the
flames of a leap forward.

In
order to ensure the success of the revolutionary ideological
offensive, we should fire an opening salvo of an ideological campaign
and make our fire concentrated, regular and accurate.

First
of all, by enlisting all the forces and means already provided for
information and motivation purposes, you should conduct ideological
work in a flexible and intensive manner.

When
the Party puts forward a new line or policy, all the networks of
education, public lectures and motivation work, as well as the mass
media, should be mobilized promptly to inform all the people, ranging
from officials at the central organs to farmers in remote,
mountainous villages. The contents, forms, means and methods of
ideological work should, to all intents and purposes, be geared and
subordinated to carrying out revolutionary tasks. The forces and
means of information and motivation work should be concentrated on
those projects the Party attaches importance to, thus kindling the
fire of a fresh leap forward.

Ideological
work should also, by giving uninterrupted publicity to the Party’s
intentions and leading a continuous advance in the ideological
struggle, ensure that no shades of evil ideas ever make inroads into
our ranks.

This
can be likened to removing falling snow from a runway with a snow
blower to prevent it from piling up. Ideological work should not be a
flash in the pan or conducted with everyone standing on ceremony, but
done regularly regardless of the time and place, so that people can
imbibe the Party’s ideas the waythey breathe air. A ceaseless and
intensive ideological campaign should be conducted to sweep away
alien ideological trends and life styles. And the repetition of
stereotyped speeches and methods should be strictly guarded against.

It
is also important to select the right targets of the ideological
offensive based on an understanding of preparedness, characteristics
and ideological tendencies, and apply appropriate means and methods.

President
Kim
Il Sung said
that work with people should be conducted in the way a mother does,
who talks differently when teaching her eldest son and youngest son.
If the employees of their units number ten thousand, ideological
workers should know the inner thoughts of each of them and work with
them using ten thousand methods.

The
path of our revolution is not smooth, and every revolutionary front
requires genuine and well-qualified ideological workers who cherish
the staunch revolutionary spirit.

In
fact, we have a vast force of Party information workers and primary
information workers enrolled in the networks of education, public
lectures and motivation work. They number tens of thousands. If they
are well prepared we can form an elite corps and with such a
contingent, we will have nothing to fear and nothing will be beyond
our strength.

Among
his revolutionary soldiers, the great General treasured and loved
most dearly those who defended the ideological front, and led and
encouraged them at every step, saying that a film or an article is as
powerful as several thousand tons of food grain or tens of thousands
of artillery shells.

Our
Party’s ideological workers have assumed a heavy task.

Each
of them should become strong in ideas and faith, someone whom the
enemy fear more than they do an entire division or corps.

Although
simple and modest in appearance, their hearts are always burning with
the Party’s intentions and they enthusiastically support the
revolution and struggle-this is a feature our Party thinks ideal for
information workers.

Ideological
workers should be true revolutionaries who never abandon the Party’s
principle of ideological work, whatever the adversity. They should
have the passion to cover long distances in a single night to inform
people of the Party’s intentions and to burn the midnight oil for
several days in studying the Party’s policies and learning
knowledge and technology.

Having
a proper outlook on people is a vital requirement for ideological
workers, who must make them open their minds. Our Party’s
information workers should be true sons and daughters of the people
who learn from them before teaching them and who highly appreciate
their efforts. To this end, they should first remember, whenever they
approach them, that they are standing before the great people whom
the President and the General believed in as in heaven and regarded
as their teachers throughout their lives.

Love
and respect for the labouring people emanate from the spirit of
loving labour. Our officials should mingle with the masses, their
hands stained with grease and their shoes with earth, and be proud of
doing so.

The
President and the General performed great exploits for the people
throughout their lives, while keeping nothing back for themselves.

Regarding
the ideas and trust of the Party as their wealth, ideological workers
should find the worth of living in informing as many people as
possible of the Party’s policies and ensuring that collective
innovations are brought about at the units under their charge. A
genuine ideological worker is someone who values more than gold the
excitement he or she feels whenever people are eager to be informed
of the Party’s intentions and when they support the Party’s
policies whole-heartedly.

When
the Party’s intentions are passed on and revolutionary songs and
cheering for the Workers’ Party and socialism resound wherever our
Party’s ideological workers go, it will be a great encouragement to
the Party.

The
entire Party should become information and motivational workers, and
all officials should conduct political work.

Whether
they are Party, administrative, economic or primary officials, they
should regard it as the key to stimulate the mental strength of the
masses, and direct due efforts to it. In particular, chief
secretaries of provincial, city and county Party committees and
senior Party officials in all sectors and all units should place
ideological work under their personal control and conduct it with all
sincerity and with great efforts.

In
the 1970s all officials, under the leadership of the Party, used to
go down to their subordinate units with rucksacks on their backs like
the anti-Japanese guerrillas had done, rouse people as required by
the Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method and bring about
innovations. This vibrant spirit should prevail throughout the
country.

Comrades,

The
revolutionary tasks facing us are enormous and the situation remains
as severe as ever. However, we should make a leap forward to bring
the future closer and achieve a ceaseless advance through our
struggle.

As
soon as you leave this conference venue, you should go among the
service personnel and people to inform them of the intentions of the
Party Central Committee and take up your starting positions for the
ideological offensive with a fresh determination.

I
stress once again: The more vibrantly the ideological front seethes,
the more fully the mental strength of the masses will be
demonstrated, and the more the service personnel and people are
roused, the faster the revolution will advance.

I
firmly believe that all our ideological workers, including those
attending this conference,
will become political workers of the type of the great Comrades Kim
Il Sung and
Kim
Jong Il
who make the whole country seethe and transform the entire army along
revolutionary lines, thus hastening our final victory.